10 Year Anniversary Blast from the Past

The earliest OSNews articles and news postings have not been available online in many years, as they were mostly static HTML, and when we made the switch over to our v1 CMS, I just filed it away on my hard drive. But to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, let’s take a peek at what was hot in the OS world in 1997. Visit our OSNews 1997 archive. We have some feature articles, opinion pieces, and a fascinating view of several days of daily news frozen in time (and chock full of dead links). Take some time to look it over. On an unrelated note, Read More if you are in, or have contacts in, the graphic design world and would like to help OSNews.We were hoping to unveil our updated design and our fully-overhauled new back-end system for our tenth anniversary, but problems retaining a graphic designer have postponed that project yet again. If you know a great designer who’d be available right now to help us out, contact me. We’d like to help someone who can help us develop and establish the look and feel of OSNews for the next 10 years.

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“C/net is exposing the future Betamaxes and 8 track tapes of the technology world in a column entitled “10 Technologies that Don’t Stand a Chance.” Judge for yourself. BTW, one of those doomed technologies is Java.”

Unfortunately, the upcoming re-release from Bandai Visual USA only bundles the DVD with the Blu-ray and HD-DVD editions, not as a stand-alone. That and using Japanese price levels ($80) for the U.S. market makes me a bit leary, not to mention the cost of an HD player.

Here we are ten years later… still waiting. In retrospect, Gateway was apparently the only serious candidate, and even they weren’t serious about it. When they found out what Jim Collas had in mind, that was the end of that.

Three websites had their acts in order, and managed to maintain URLs for nearly 10 years:

C|Net (2 of 3)

AppleInsider (1 of 1)

StepWise (1 of 1)

Other than that, the web is like a virtual Library of Alexandria. It has all these tantilizing hints as to the volumes of information that it once contained, but which were destroyed by the savage hoards (website admins).

Also, do bear in mind that there is no backup of the Internet Archive. This is a basement run project using entirely legacy hardware. If a hard disk dies, that’s a whole chunk of Internet history lost right there. Scary when you think about it.

Also, do bear in mind that there is no backup of the Internet Archive. This is a basement run project using entirely legacy hardware. If a hard disk dies, that’s a whole chunk of Internet history lost right there. Scary when you think about it.

Web development has evolved over the years, as has technology, but it would be a mistake to let ‘old things’ that are ‘crap’ be destroyed because we have newer things now. Should we demolish the great wall of china, the pyramids of Egypt and the Parthenon of Greece? I think not.

Now, mind you, there is doubtlessly plenty of crap in those internet archives, but I think it rather rash of you to declare that it’s all junk just because most people won’t take the time to sift through it.

while there’s been a lot of exciting developments in the last ten years, I’m still surprised to see how stagnant the industry has been. The same key players are there, the Amiga and OS/2 stories are similar to what we see here these days.

while there’s been a lot of exciting developments in the last ten years, I’m still surprised to see how stagnant the industry has been. The same key players are there, the Amiga stories are similar to what we see here these days.

The Amiga seems it has been trapped in a time loop.It´s all the time the same history again and again with different players.The Amiga universe collapsed in a black hole?

“Ending Mac OS licensing has many Apple fanatics up in arms, but the Mac’s days are numbered. Like it or not, the most compelling technologies in Apple’s future are a modern operating system mated to cheap, easy to configure Network Computers.”